Patanjali Yoga Sutras: Ashtanga Yoga - Yama - Patanjali Yoga Sutra 81
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Ashtanga Yoga - Yama: Patanjali Yoga Sutra 81
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Patanjali Yoga Sutras continue at the morning satsangs by Living Enlightened Master and Rare Avatar, Paramahamsa Nithyananda at the ashram delivered to all devotees and Inner Awakening participants and to a global audience through live enTV.
Today's 81st Sutra from chapter 2nd 30th verse is " Ahima Satya Asateya Brahmacarya Aparigrahah Yamah". The literal translation is "Non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence and non-possessiveness are called Yama"
Coining His message with the topic -- Hidden Truths about Laws of Life", Nithyananda dealt first on the laws of life. He expanded, "Loss of life does not mean only death. It also means living in unawareness. Even though one is living, the life is a loss. If you are living and life is a loss, that is what I call depression. Everyday, your life should add deeper levels of consciousness and awareness. If you are getting caught in deeper and deeper crutches and ruts, then understand you are going in the opposite way."
First, he described Yama - It is defined as flow, law and the very force that makes the whole thing flow as per the law. Emphasizing on an important truth on Yama, 'the law and the force which makes the whole thing flow in law are one and the same. Judiciary and execution, and the law enforcement are one and the same in cosmos. When these become different, then corruption comes. That is why country law suffers but cosmic law never suffers nor creates suffering."
He came upon a beautiful research that clearly proves that you do not act because of your mental setups or beliefs. Research says that you just do not know why you act in the way you acted. The decision to act and the action both happen simultaneously in oneself without any logic behind it.
He explains, "that is the reason why in Vedic Tradition altering the consciousness is given so much importance because law and action both come from there. This is individual Inner Awakening (Pratyagatma Chaitanya Jagrata). Then the person who is acting in you and making decision in you is conscious. This means your consciousness is responsible for your very action. Understand, your body and mind are not in control of your consciousness. If you think it is so, you are fear based person. However, if you think your body and mind are in love with consciousness, you become a spiritual being."
Yama in sanskrit language is not just law. It is also the energy that executes the law. Law and execution are not two different energies. That is why Patanjali says Yama has to happen, not practiced. Otherwise one struggles with law and execution and that leads to depression and schizophrenia Understanding about Yama will change the way you live the deeper truths that form this Yama.